Celebrating a Traditional English Country Fair - The Farming Chronicles

[@debraco7748]

You're doing the lords work with these uploads. Many thanks

[@timstradling7764]

Great to see that events such as this one still flourish, with tradition and a modern twist.

[@zerog5041]

Nice one Dave, almost brought a tear to my eye watching those lovely scenes and wishing I was young again!

[@TerryC69]

Hi Dave! Working with Andrew is a good pairing for you.

[@classicraceruk1337]

Thanks for putting these up Dave, takes me back a bit……

[@harmonicresonanceproject]

Excellent!

[@deerohdeer8000]

Great Dave !!! As you can imagine love this ! New Forest is my life & this brought it to life ! Great to see Andrew a Forest commoner explaining the New Forest Show ! Brilliant 🤩 👍

[@sitarnut]

Andrew is da Bomb! Great narration...

[@garybrownsword-xq1um]

thank you just like stafford county show

[@raymondhull3838]

a great cshow i used to do the commentary for the catle classses, beef and dairy in those days

[@martinkavanagh196]

Well Done and Thank You.

[@Charlie-wood]

Ha ha yes, we still call it a flan! Grandpa from Cranborne. 😊

[@Charlie-wood]

G grandma from Chalk.

[@roseybut]

Brilliant. Thanks Dave.

[@jackmckinnon3208]

I have some great memories of the new forest shows over the years Thanks for the upload Dave 👍

[@pauljane3323]

I've noticed that a ot of jack Hargreaves programmes have been taken off U tube. Unfortunate, love watching them.and trying to source a watchable box set of DVDs

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

There will be more.

[@stephenrice4554]

I saved the Jack Hargreaves videos as the turned up knowing of the viscisitudes of utube

[@jimmyh8090]

I got a complete box set of DVDs from Amazon , try looking on there

[@restingpilgrim3384]

You can also try Talking Pictures TV if you have that channel for Out of town episodes

[@EnglishCountryLife]

I'm sure Dave Knowles can point you to the DVDs😉

[@stephenhankey688]

Nice video. Lovely to see a different show ❤

[@EnglishCountryLife]

More from Andrew please - would love to see the carding, spinning & knitting as an episode

[@burniemaurins2382]

Nice film Dave, thankyou, I shall be visiting the area for a family wedding, first trip for over two decades as I now live in Scotland.

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

I hope you have a good trip and enjoy the forest.

[@EnglishCountryLife]

Love the treadle powered lathe. I'm used to pole lathes but not seen one quite like that. Last time I went to the shiw was about 10 years ago & it was just too busy for me. We have Heckington here. The biggest village show inbthe world but still manageable. Really loved this original stuff. More please

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Thank you Hugh

[@marknewman5387]

The last time I went to the New Forest Show would have been in the late 80s. The countryman Norman Goodland used to be there signing his books.

[@christopherhinton6456]

the mustard colour is the barkley hunt

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

A Bodger is (amongst other things) a 'greenwood' chair maker... There was a time when Bodgers all over Britain would spend their working lives in the woods and forests, making chairs using the most basic of traditional tools and techniques. Rustic spindle chairs were common at the time - just think Windsor pattern dining chairs to get an approximate idea of what those earlier designs evolved into. They worked with green wood - straight from the tree (not seasoned or kiln dried). Woven wicker or slabs shaped with an adze were common seat options. Their methods migrated to USA, where it too became an essential livelihood. The term 'Bodger' has become somewhat derogatory in recent times but originally, it was a skilled craft requiring extensive knowledge of how each piece of wood (from each tree species) would expand and contract, to make the best possible joints that could last for many years - generations in some cases. Also, the timbers were sometimes bent as required to make a chair or other item. Lathes were powered by 'springing' a hefty sapling via twine to rotate the shaft. The 'bench' (if you could call it that) to shape parts was called a shave horse, which had push pedals to cantilever a grip onto the wood being shaped. It's a fascinating tradition of furniture making and it's nice to see some of those old methods being kept alive in this video.

[@jonfisher9214]

I came to the comments section to say that a bodger worked with greenwood but you've already made a far more comprehensive comment. Thank you!

[@yusufalfyfer9415]

My dad would come home with a few dozen pheasant eggs and put them under a hen bantams and rear them for shooting season the best days have gone now sadly

[@crowznest438]

I'd love to see a video on your Great Aunt, if she'd be willing..

[@johnhill7010]

Nice one could Andrew be a modern J H

[@simonupex2628]

Dave I've mentioned before when watching Andrew there's an echo of jack in a lot of what Andrew says which isn't a bad thing by any means, is there any chance you could bring back old country or out of town with Andrew presenting has the idea been discussed at all 😊

[@duncanmarlow]

Compared to Dave's older films, everyone is hugely fat!

[@paulsmith-oy3bu]

Put jack Hargreaves vids back on

[@pauljane3323]

Not as they were. A lot of shorts but not as many full episodes unfortunately

[@sitarnut]

No one can beat a Jack Hargreaves show... Fishing and everything else too...

[@paulsmith-oy3bu]

@@sitarnut to true. Brilliant bloke